I've tried Muguboka, which I thought was pretty good. I wandered in looking for a late lunch and ended up ordering the soon tofu, even though it wasn't a specialty. Very spicy, with a lot of lovely soft tofu. (I find some of the tofu places in SF are annoyingly stingy with the tofu.) No crispy rice in a stonepot, but I didn't expect any. The panchan are a little smaller but there was a wide variety--about 14 dishes rather than the more typical 7-8. The place was clean and white, kind of had the feel of eating in your grandma's kitchen, possibly because there were 3-4 korean seniors/staff watching a soap opera while I was there.

The menu was much more unusual than I was expecting for a SF restaurant. There was definitely goat stew and ssam. I've got the menu lying around my house somewhere. I'll post the more unusual stuff and prices when I find it.

i grabbed a quick lunch at arang yesterday. i know this thread is non-bbq specific, but i ordered the kalbi lunch special. came in a bento box with two fried mandu, a bit of japchae, salad, miso soup, and rice. i normally would've ordered a soup or stew, but was craving beef. the kalbi was pretty good, but rice was super mushy and overcooked, and i had to ask for kimchi. i wasn't expecting panchan for a bento lunch special, but one should never have to ask for kimchi in a korean restaurant!

i can't get over that mushy rice, though. i know that my aversion to rice scooped onto a plate with an ice-cream scooper, or to rice molded into a bowl and then turned out onto the plate is an irrational quirk (like how piet mondrian paintings make me angry), but if it has to be scooped or molded, don't overcook it!